December 30, 2005
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[edit] 30 December 2005 (Friday)
- Twenty Sudanese migrants are killed when a Cairo camp is broken up by police. (BBC)
- A consortium led by New York based Citigroup has won the right to buy 85% of the Guangdong Development Bank, in the People's Republic of China, according to a Reuters report. It beat out a rival Europe-based consortium.
- Tropical Storm Zeta, the twenty-seventh named storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, forms in the Atlantic Ocean one month after the season's official end. (Reuters) (US NHC)
- Drake Bell was injured in a car accident. A Mercedes plowed into his 1966 Mustang. Bell suffered a broken jaw and a fractured neck. Due to this, his hit television show "Drake and Josh" was post-poned until March.